

"It was a game that did so very much to evolve and define the FPS, and yet it does not fit so easily into the conventions that the Texan Doom-makers' other games wallow in," he wrote. In a Quake retrospective published in 2011, Jim Rossignol discussed the influence of Id's game. QuakeCon at Home ends at 3am UK time on Monday 10th August. Yes, the Bethesda launcher is yet another launcher for your PC, but this is Quake.

And now, as Quake approaches a quarter of a century of existence, owner Bethesda is giving away the game that started it all free to anyone who signs in to its launcher from now until the end of the QuakeCon at Home event. Id Software's hugely popular PC first-person shooter came out in the US on 22nd June 1996, courtesy of publisher GT Interactive.
